We need to be visionary; we have to be bold.

If revenge is sweet, why does it leave such a bitter taste? In disarming Peter, Christ disarmed ever knight. Turn the other cheek.

Like blood out of a wound, a keening wail rose from the bottom of my heart and ripped through the graveyard. I lowered my face to Hadassah's shoulder and went quietly and thoroughly to pieces.

Our town was known for two things--no, three: salted fish, expertly dyed fabrics, and corruption.

Briefer is better, so learn to write tight

It only takes one person to change your life for the better: YOU. Develop yourself to be excellent for success, by working hard and smart. Make self-improvement for success your first objective.

For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America.

It is grievous to be caught.

We will first understand how simple the universe is when we recognize how strange it is.

I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. [Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]

Our audacity to rise from our losses makes Nigeria the number one footballing nation in Africa!

When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for them, it clears out an awful lot of woolly thinking.

I can make fried tofu, boiled tofu, stuffed tofu. Cutlets and other fancy stuff, that's for other directors.

There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.